This Photographer Spent Three Years Shooting One Gritty Midwestern Block—See Images From His Powerful Series Here
Luvelli, Frost (2013-15). Courtesy of the artist and Monk Talent Agency. In his captivating and gritty black-and-white photographs, Jon Luvelli details the overlooked stories and rural idiosyncrasies of Midwestern American life. Luvelli (who goes primarily by just his last name) has a unique insider-outsider perspective to the environments he documents. Born in Italy to an Italian father and an African-Italian mother, Luvelli was adopted at just six days old and was brought to the United States, where he was raised on a small-town farm in Missouri. From a young age, photography offered him...
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